School: Lisball
- Location:
- Lisball, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Doherty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1010, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)service in it in the evening. There are a lot of monuments up and the rich people have wreaths of flowers on their relatives graves.
Maybalge is another old graveyard. St. Patrick founded the church of Maybalge Long ago there was a woman coming to Maybale fasting and she asked a horseman to give her the blackberries and she ate them and turned into a huge swine and she ran into the chapel. St. Patrick flung his Holy water brush at her and her body flew into hands each going in a different direction. When she was dying she pronounced a curse on the land on 99 generations of Gangans. If some crossed the spot where her body lay she would rise again and destroy the land.
The church Hill is another old graveyard. There are the ruins of our old church in it. There is a vault at it, and the people who are buried in it are called Besesfard's Corglass is another old graveyard and also Glasbeck and Danmiskeen. There is another burying place up at "Breaky". It is called the "Potato Garden".
Corglass was established in the year(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Florence Roundtree
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gartnaneane, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Sam Stewart
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bracklin, Co. Cavan
